Now, at first I thought this was a hoax. But it appears it isn’t. Apparently a fellow writing into a Jihadi chat show wants to do “martyrdom operations.” The sheikh he talked to says they’ve got a great new technique to blow up infidels. We hide explosives up your butt. There’s just one hitch. You’ve got to be repeatedly sodomized in order to be able to accommodate the explosive. So, the questioner wants to know if it is permissible for him to be regularly rogered, if doing so makes his posterior more amenable to hiding explosives. The fellow on camera, Shiite cleric Abdallah Al-Khilaf, says that even though sodomy is forbidden if it is necessary for jihad, well, then it is required. Because jihad is the highest obligation.

Now, what I find hilarious here is that it never occurs to anyone that there might be some kind of technological work-around short of repeated sodomy. You know, maybe there’s a device or a technique, something that is a little less unpleasant, inconvenient or forbidden than straight-up buggery? Nope. Gotta go with the sodomy. The Saturday Night Live skit writes itself.

Jihadi: What if we make the bomb smaller?

Sheikh: What? That’s crazy. Sodomy is the only way.

Jihadi: Couldn’t I use replica of a male, well, you know. In private like . . .

Sheikh: Shh! Let’s not even discuss it.

Jihadi: What if I’m willing to tolerate a lot of discomfort when it comes time for the martyrdom operation? I mean, it’s my choice. I am blowing myself up after all. What’s a little discomfort?

Sheikh: You’re not hearing me. This is the way it has to be. Don’t you want to murder infidels?

After a near record breaking snowfall here which we still have not recovered
from my heart goes out to the people of Cairo who have gotten snow for the first
time in 112 years. This follows a record breaking snowstorm in Jerusalem
yesterday.

If this global warming doesn't end soon we will all be buried in a mini ice
age.

A WOMAN WALKS INTO THE DOWNTOWN
WELFARE OFFICE, TRAILED BY 15 KIDS. 'WOW,'

THE SOCIAL WORKER EXCLAIMS, 'ARE THEY
ALL YOURS?'

'YEP, THEY'RE ALL MINE,' THE
FLUSTERED MOMMA SIGHS, HAVING HEARD THAT

QUESTION A THOUSAND TIMES BEFORE. SHE
SAYS, 'SIT DOWN TERRY.' ALL THE

CHILDREN RUSH TO FIND
SEATS.

'WELL,' SAYS THE SOCIAL WORKER, 'THEN
YOU MUST BE HERE TO SIGN UP. I'LL NEED

ALL YOUR CHILDREN'S
NAMES.'

''WELL, TO KEEP IT SIMPLE, THE BOYS
ARE ALL NAMED TERRY AND THE GIRLS ARE

ALL NAMED
TERRI."

IN DISBELIEF, THE CASE WORKER SAYS,
'ARE YOU SERIOUS? THEY'RE ALL NAMED

TERRY?'

THEIR MOMMA REPLIED, 'WELL, YES - IT
MAKES IT EASIER. WHEN IT'S TIME TO GET THEM OUT OF BED AND READY FOR SCHOOL
, I YELL, TERRY! AND WHEN IT'S TIME FOR DINNER, I JUST YELL TERRY! AND THEY
ALL COME A RUNNING. AND IF I NEED TO STOP THE KID WHO'S RUNNING INTO THE
STREET, I JUST YELL TERRY AND ALL OF THEM STOP. IT'S THE SMARTEST IDEA I
EVER HAD, NAMING THEM ALL TERRY.'

THE SOCIAL WORKER THINKS THIS OVER
FOR A BIT, THEN WRINKLES HER FOREHEAD AND SAYS TENTATIVELY, 'BUT WHAT IF YOU
JUST WANT ONE KID TO COME, AND NOT THE WHOLE
BUNCH?'

Thursday, 12 December 2013

Whenever liberals are in a tight spot, they adopt the scorched-earth policy
of argumentation. With no answer, they start demanding that you define words:
What do you mean "liberal"? What do you mean "democracy"? What do you mean
"patriotism"?

They retreat from argument, burning the English
language as they go.

Accustomed to playing the role of Soviet commissar
censoring the news when it comes to black violence, the Non-Fox Media are in a
panic now that the alternative media can post videos of young black males
punching out random strangers.

As a result, liberals are denying the
"Knockout Game" exists by refusing to understand the meaning of basic words,
such as "game" and "trend."

Knockout Game-debunkers place great
significance, for example, on the fact that the assailants have not signed
affidavits calling it a "game."

Thus, The New York Times noted that in
one recent case of a random stranger being knocked out by young black males,
"the attacker insisted the assault was not part of any organized
'game.'"

A 78-year-old woman is punched by a young black male for no
reason, and the Times' central point is: "Perp says it's not a
'game.'"

Similarly, in Philadelphia magazine, Stephen Silver said of two
recent knockout attacks in Philadelphia that he wasn't counting either one as
"confirmed cases of the Knockout Game" on the grounds that the puncher said he
"was not participating in the Game."

Until the assailants admit they're
playing a game, liberals say the Knockout Game is a "hoax."

Obviously, it
doesn't matter what the participants call it. I don't know anyone who calls
himself a "pundit," but that doesn't mean people don't go on TV and give their
opinions. Every liberal denies he's a liberal, but that doesn't mean "liberals"
don't exist. (Would that it were so!)

While we're on the
subject, I can't think of a single instance in which someone has admitted to
committing a "hate crime," but liberals are always calling things "hate
crimes."

The Huffington Post concluded that the Knockout Game was
"fabricated" based on one of the most famous victims, James Addlespurger,
denying that it was a game. Instead, he calls his knockout an "assault," saying
"game" is just a "label."

Hey, you know what else is just a label? The
word "assault." "James Addlespurger" is a label. Another expression for "label"
is "word" -- meaning, "something liberals try to blow up whenever they're about
to be trapped into admitting the truth."

As Sgt. Tom Connellan of
Syracuse, N.Y., patiently explained to the Times, it's called a "game" because
there is no other motive for these attacks. They're not done for vengeance,
robbery, gang initiations or payback. Strangers are being punched out strictly
for amusement. Also, there are rules. You get only one punch to knock someone
out.

(Incidentally, the reason the Times was quoting a policeman from
Syracuse -- in an article questioning the reality of the "Knockout Game" -- is
that two recent knockout attacks in that city were fatal.)

We don't need
anyone to admit that it's a "game" for it to be so. Doing something for no
reason other than having fun is a "game."

What do you mean "fun"? One
man's fun is another man's torture!

This is how parents waste half a
million dollars on their kids' educations. Instead of learning how to make a
point, their kids are learning how to end communication by denying the meaning
of words.

Liberals also seem unfamiliar with the word "trend," mocking
the idea that the Knockout Game constitutes one.

I guess it depends on
what the meaning of "trend" is. ("Trend," "game" and "is" -- three words
liberals can't understand when they're lying.)

For this, we again turn to
the Old Gray Lady, Trend Spotter. Over the years, the Times has identified
"trends" in "eating oysters," "honesty" in home furnishings and pocket-watch
tattoos.

In none of these cases was the identification of a trend
subjected to the exacting analysis the Times employed to deny that the Knockout
Game was a "trend." (Say, was the wanton violence by Democratic Party offshoot
the Ku Klux Klan a "trend" or more of a "fad"?)

The Times even helped
push the bogus idea in the 1990s that black church burnings were a "trend" --
which turned out to be a complete lie. This led to one of Bill Clinton's more
colorful lies, about his "vivid and painful" memories of black church burnings
in Arkansas in his youth.

(After a massive investigation involving the
state historian, the Arkansas NAACP, the Regular Arkansas Baptist Convention and
the Arkansas Black History Advisory Committee, it turned out no black churches
had been burned in Arkansas.)

Soon after my grandfather died when I was 10 or 11 my grandmother began
having me spend the night with her every Friday night. There was a time when I
was young and foolish enough to think this was because she was giving me a
treat. I now realize that I was her treat, company in a large house grown
suddenly too quiet and too lonely. I would stay until Saturday afternoon when my
cousin Elizabeth would come and spend Saturday night with Grandmother staying
until late Sunday afternoon. Thus the two of us would fill my grandmother's
weekend.

I have a lot of memories of this period and I will share them sometime but it
deserves a blog post of its own (I wrote one once but it is now lost).

Fridays after school I would walk home with grandmother. She taught school in
the same grammar school I attended. Grandmother would change and then we would
walk over to the town across the footbridge that spanned the harbor. We would go
to Porter's Drugstore where I would get a five cent fountain coke while
grandmother did whatever it was she did there. We would go to the post office
and then to the library. I would gather four or five books. The rule at
Grandmother's was I could stay up as late as I wanted if I was reading and read
I would. From the library we would go to dinner and then wander back across the
footbridge to home.

Once home I would lose myself in my book and grandmother would sit sideways
on the couch with her feet up in front of the snowy black and white television
pulling in it's signal from Portland. Over fifty years ago. I still remember
WGAN, WCSH.

Soon after Grandfather died my youngest uncle bought one of the first
stereos, a table top version, which, him being unmarried, he placed in my
grandmother's home, his home when he was on leave from the navy. He also bought
dozens of records and brought dozens more home on every leave. Even at my young
age I couldn't help notice this was a rather insipid collection of music for
someone as cool as my uncle. Amongst the Perry Comeau and Nat King Cole albums
was the sound track to every musical ever produced.

Of course I didn't realize until he married and left home and left the stereo
behind that it was actually bought for my grandmother as was all the music.

The music of My Fair Lady and South Pacific and Oklahoma and The West Side
Story and every other conceivable musical filled that quiet, old home with sound
on the nights my cousin and I weren't there. All those years later and I still
know the scores to all those old musicals as well. They are indelibly embedded
in my mind.

Relaxed on the couch while I silently read Grandmother would spend Friday
evening listening to an entire evening of music. First would be Sing Along with
Mitch. Mitch would be followed my The Perry Comeau Show and after Perry came my
grandmother's favorite, her secret love, Andy Williams. Grandmother loved Andy
best of all and I knew that when Andy was on I had best not make a peep.

I thought of this the other night. I wandered upstairs to find father turning
in to a PBS special on the best of Andy Williams Christmas shows featuring clips
through the years of performances of Andy, his brothers, his family and his
guests. Frankly, I was enthralled. I stood and watched for a few moments and
then made to sit on the couch I was standing in front of.

I laughed a short laugh as a tear gathered in the corner of my eye. Truth be
told a tear gathered in his as well.

I have often said I do not watch television and I do not. That was the first
show I have seen in years but that night I watched that entire Andy Williams
special sitting in the living room with my father and my grandmother who somehow
was there also.

So the Oxford Dictionary people have chosen "selfie" as word of the year. I
don't understand the 'word of the year concept' nor why anyone would want to
enshrine flash-in-the-pan jargon in the hallowed Oxford Dictionary but that is a
different topic.

I freely admit I do not follow the whims of modern culture. I am completely
disinterested. I don't care. Nor am I prone to taking pictures of myself. That
concept seems like narcissism in the extreme.

But let's be honest here. 'Selfie' is not a word one would immediately
associate with a picture. All this time I thought these people were talking
about masturbation.

Phys.org reports on a new study that explains what kind of people prefer to work
in a government monopoly.

Excerpt:

College students who cheated on a simple task were more likely to want
government jobs, researchers from Harvard University and the University of
Pennsylvania found in a study of hundreds of students in Bangalore, India.

Their results, recently released as a working paper by the National Bureau of
Economic Research, suggest that one of the contributing forces behind government
corruption could be who gets into government work in the first place.

[...]Researchers ran a series of experiments with more than 600 students
finishing up college in India. In one task, students had to privately roll a die
and report what number they got. The higher the number, the more they would get
paid. Each student rolled the die 42 times.
Although researchers do not know for sure if any one student lied, they could
tell whether the numbers each person reported were wildly different from what
would turn up randomly – in other words, whether there were a suspiciously high
number of 5s and 6s in their results.
Cheating seemed to be rampant: More than a third of students had scores that
fell in the top 1 percent of the predicted distribution, researchers found.
Students who apparently cheated were 6.3 percent more likely to say they wanted
to work in government, the researchers found.
“Overall, we find that dishonest individuals – as measured by the dice task –
prefer to enter government service,” wrote Hanna and co-author Shing-yi Wang, an
assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

They added, “Importantly, we show that cheating on this task is also
predictive of fraudulent behaviors by real government officials.”
The same test, given to a smaller set of government nurses, showed that those
who appear to have cheated with the dice were also more likely to skip work.
Previous studies suggest that the bulk of such absenteeism is fraudulent, Hanna
said.

Aside from the armed forces, most people who go into government go there
because they want to have a secure job that they cannot be fired from no matter
how poorly they perform. They want to be insulated from market forces and free
trade. They don’t want to have to do a good job and please customers in order to
get paid. Naturally, people who cheat on tests and lack qualifications are
attracted to unionized industries like government for these reasons.

Once? Maybe. Twice? I dunno. Three, four more? I don't believe it. Turns out
I was right.

When the first story came out I thought, okay, in this crazy world we live in
it might be true but then the stories kept coming and coming and coming and I
knew it was bullshit just like the Matthew Shepherd hate murder turned out to be
bullshit.

A New Jersey couple is reportedly disputing a story that made headlines
nationwide about a gay waitress who was left a note criticizing her “lifestyle”
instead of a tip, claiming their receipt shows they did leave a tip and didn’t
write the note.

Dayna Morales, an ex-Marine and server at Gallop Asian Bistro in Bridgewater,
said she received the offensive note on a November 13 receipt. “I’m sorry but I
cannot tip because I don’t agree with your lifestyle and how you live your
life,” the message read.

The couple, who asked to remain anonymous, contacted the media after the
story went viral and produced a receipt that was apparently printed at the same
time, on the same date, for the same amount, except with an $18 tip.

A manager and the restaurant owner insisted they had the original ticket for
the $93.55 charge, but would not produce the receipt and could not explain why
the family’s credit card was charged for more.

The restaurant later said in a statement it was aware of the allegations and
had no comment pending an internal investigation.

A Harvard University student journal has caused uproar after writing that
Jews deserved to be punished for killing Jesus.

Now, a Christian paper
run by students at Harvard University, has apologized for publishing an article
written by an anonymous writer, who wrote that Jews deserve to be punished by
God for killing Jesus.

The article was published on the website of
Harvard Ichthus on Wednesday. It was removed and republished on
Friday.

Ichthus editor in chief Aaron Gyde published an apology on the
website on Saturday, on behalf of the editorial board of the
journal.

"First, we apologize for the poor editorial oversight of the
publication and republication of that article," Gyde wrote.

"It was not
the intention of the writer or the website to present a piece that is
anti-Semitic in nature," he also wrote.

The article was titled "Why us?"
And it was written by a Jewish convert to Christianity. The author has asked to
remain anonymous due to potential personal attacks.

Look, I am not on a crusade here. This second story just happened to pop up
on the National Post yesterday after I posted the story about the syphilis
epidemic in Vancouver's gay community.

Now I don't have a dog in this fight except ... except I in reality I do, and
so do you and so does everyone when someone else's sexual behaviour becomes a
threat to everyone else's health.

Of course it wouldn't be a problem if people would be responsible, if they
were monogamous or at the least practiced safe sex but they do not and
increasingly not so in the gay community who has returned to their promiscuous
ways and returned to unprotected sex not just in Metro Vancouver,

All of this is also at a time when the gay lobbyists are trying to get the US
Government to drop the ban on gay blood donations. Right!

There are 50,000 new AIDS infection a year in the USA and behaviour like this
is going to make that number explode.
Just a 'by the way' for you. Statistics reveal that the average homosexual
has over 500 lifetime sexual contacts. Wrap your head around that and remember
it the next time someone tries to tell you that homosexuality is normal.
I have gay family members and news like this really disturbs me. I worry for
them. Especially when I know that at least one of them is not monogamous and
thus threatens his partner with a potential death sentence.

U.S. federal health officials are reporting a sharp increase in unprotected
sex among gay American men, a development that makes it harder to fight the AIDS
epidemic.

The same trend has recently been documented among gay men in Canada, Britain,
the Netherlands, France and Australia, heightening concerns among public health
officials worldwide.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number
of men who told federal health investigators that they had had unprotected anal
sex in the last year rose nearly 20% from 2005 to 2011. In the 2011 survey,
unprotected sex was more than twice as common among men who said they did not
know whether they were infected with HIV.
‘The problem with sero-sorting is that it’s really easy to get it
wrong’

.Being tested even once for HIV is associated with men taking fewer
risks, whether the test is positive or negative, health experts say. But the
most recent survey found that a third of the men interviewed had not been tested
in the past year.
The findings are worrying because “unprotected anal intercourse is in a
league of its own as far as risk is concerned,” Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director
of the disease centers, said Wednesday as the figures were released.

The data, published in the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, do
not explain why unprotected sex has risen so rapidly, but a leading hypothesis,
Frieden said, is that more men are “sero-sorting” — that is, those who are
uninfected (“HIV seronegative” on lab reports) try to sleep only with other men
who are uninfected, or who hope they are, or who merely promise they are.

“The problem with sero-sorting is that it’s really easy to get it wrong,”
Frieden said.

The CDC suggests that sexually active gay men be tested at least
annually.

‘It’s like what the Red Queen said to Alice: You have to run faster and
faster to stay in the same place’

.The number of new HIV infections in the
U.S. has been static at roughly 50,000 per year for many years, although public
health officials are trying to bring it down. Among the factors working against
them: The U.S. population is growing, and infected men are living longer and
staying sexually active thanks to antiretroviral drugs.

“It’s like what the Red Queen said to Alice: ‘You have to run faster and
faster to stay in the same place,’” Frieden said. “When you go from one million
infected to 1.2 million, you have to do better and better just to stay
steady.”

What the hell happened to safe sex? Responsibility? Have people learned
nothing? Apparently not in Vancouver where health officials are calling the
current syphilis rate in Metro Vancouver an epidemic. Indeed, across Canada a
disease that was once rare has exploded over the last few years but no where
more so then in Vancouver's gay community.

Yes, you heard that right. The gay community. The community that has been
devastated by HIV and AIDS have syphilis rates of epidemic proportions. And
sadly, these are the numbers that they are seeing. The real number of cases will
be higher.

But here is the real frightening phenonema that is not being reported. Where
there is an increase in one kind of sexually transmitted disease there is an
increase in others and many, like HIV, often go undetected for years. Indeed,
studies show that 1 in 5, that is 20%, of sexually active gay and bisexual men
have HIV and of that number fully 50% of them do not know it.

In 2012, there were 371 cases reported in B.C., most of those with the
disease were gay and bisexual men.
A new campaign is warning gay and bisexual men that syphilis rates are at
epidemic proportions in the Lower Mainland. Nov. 18, 2013. (Vancouver Coastal
Health)

The sexually transmitted disease is highly contagious.

If left untreated, syphilis can lead to blindness, hearing loss, neurological
problems and in severe cases can be fatal.

Vancouver Coastal Health launched the campaign to urge people in gay and
bisexual communities to get tested regularly and practise safe sex.

The cheeky Internet and poster campaign focuses on Vancouver trends such as
French bulldogs, dating apps and syphilis rates at a 30-year high.

Several community agencies work with gay and bisexual men, including Health
Initiative for Men, or HIM, and Positive Living B.C.

Jody Jollimore, program manager for Health Initiative for Men, said the
campaign educates men in a way that reflects their lives.

"We know that gay and bisexual men care about their sexual health and when
given access to appropriate information, (they) make healthier choices,"
Jollimore said in a news release.

Glen Doupe, an outreach team leader for the B.C. Centre for Disease Control,
said people need to get tested regularly because they have may the disease and
not know it.
"Syphilis spreads easily through any form of sexual contact so people also
need to be more knowledgeable about safe sex practices."

B.C. isn't the only province to see a spike in the number of syphilis
cases.

Statistics show that in 2010 there were more than 1,750 cases in Canada, up
from the 177 in 1993.

I drove number two daughter to the city this morning to do Christmas
shopping. We took her Jeep Sahara. The roads were as bad as I have ever seen
them. It snowed overnight, froze on the road, then got rained on. The first 50
miles were nerve wracking even with four wheel drive. Twenty miles out of town
we took a rock to the windshield, right on the edge where the crack immediately
ran across the drivers side. This life in northern Canada where you expect to go
through one windshield a year and thus why car insurance is so high. No sense
replacing this one now until late spring when the rocks have been swept off the
road again.

Once in the city we picked up number three daughter and granddaughter Gracey
and took them with us while we Christmas shopped. Gracey is usually all over me
but today I was ignored as Auntie Amy was the center of attention.

It was pouring in the city and half way back. On the other half to here it
was just light rain. Heavy or light it isn't what we need now with the
temperatures plummeting tomorrow. We are going to be a sea of ice.
It was a long trip back in the dark. I am tired tonight. Very tired. I am
going to put on mu PJ's and lie down on the bed with a book. I am thinking I
won't get many pages read.

I am getting too old for white knuckle winter driving and chasing kids and
grandkids around malls.

Tess' mother is on her iPad doing FaceTime with her grandson and
great-grandson. Tess is on the phone talking to her brother. Every one in a
while they try to talk louder than the other. You'd think one of them would go
to another room, but no.

I am about to fuck them both up and call my daughter on my cell
phone.

After a day of torrential rain in the north and mixed rain and snow here on
Saturday the arctic express came roaring in. Sunday the temperatures plunged and
a wind tore through here with sustained winds of 30 kilometers and hour and
gusts up to 45. It was right nippy outside.

Monday the winds began to subside and were gone by evening which was welcome
considering that it dropped to minus 16. The mercury is supposed to continue
dropping throughout the week. The forecast seems to change hourly but the
consensus seems to be that night time lows will be minus 21 until next Tuesday.
Crap! That doesn't bode well for the rest of winter. It is early for a cold snap
and it has been a long time since we have had an extended period of it.

Over in the flat land in Alberta most of the highways are closed in the
southern half of the province as they batttle a blizzard.

The fun has begun.

Friday morning, barring minus 40 temperatures and/or a snow storm, we will be
heading for Vancouver for a long weekend. Tess' nephew is getting married on
Saturday - legitimizing baby Brennen, I guess.
Maybe there will be a sliver lining in the clouds and Tess' mother will stay
there. There is always hope isn't there?

(CNSNews.com) - Sixty-two percent of American men who know they are HIV
positive continue to have unprotected anal sex, according to data released last week by the federal Centers for Disease
Control.

This data, which was published Friday, came from the federal government's
National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System.

The percentage of self-aware HIV-positive men who engage in unprotected anal
sex has been increasing, according to the CDC. In 2005, 55 percent did so. In
2008, 57 percent did so. And, in 2011, 62 percent did so.

"Unprotected anal sex is a high-risk practice for HIV infection, with
receptive anal sex having the highest risk," said the CDC report.
"Unprotected anal sex also places MSM at risk for other sexually
transmitted infections such as syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea. Although
condoms can reduce the risk for HIV transmission, they do not eliminate risk and
often are not used consistently. Some MSM attempt to decrease their
HIV risk by engaging in unprotected sex only with partners perceived to have the
same HIV status as their own. However, this practice is risky, especially for
HIV-negative MSM, because MSM with HIV might not know or disclose that they are
infected and men's assumptions about the HIV status of their partners can be
wrong."

Did you catch that?

Sixty-two percent of American men who know they are HIV positive
continue to have unprotected anal sex.
That should boggle your mind. I know it does mine. These people are so
selfish they risk giving a death sentence to their sex partners soley to satisfy
their sexual desires regardless of the consequences to anyone else.

There is getting to be a steady parade of hate crime hoaxes with people using
these alleged crimes to gain notoriety or to gain an advantage or to promote the
LGBTQ agenda (look at how many of these involve LGBTQ).

This is an extensive list but it does not mention the most notorius hate
crime hoax at all which is the Matthew Sheperd murder which brought a rush of
hate crime legislation but which is now known to have had nothing to do with his
being gay - indeed his murderer was his sometime lover.

Former Fix assistant editor Robby Soave has published an
investigative report on a series of “hate crimes” at Vassar College. Turns out,
it was all an elaborate hoax, carried out by the left-wing leader of the
school’s official “Bias Incident Response Team.”

This fall semester at the liberal arts college in New York saw a curiously
high number of bias incident reports. On Nov. 14, the college sent a mass email
to students advising them that Bias Incident Response Team (BIRT) had received
at least six reports in the last few months of hateful and insensitive messages
being scrawled and spray painted on student residences. Messages included “Avoid
Being Bitches,” “Fuck Niggers,” and most prominently, “Hey Tranny. Know Your
Place.”

“This is unacceptable and members of our community should be able to learn
and work in environments that are free of hurtful expressions and behaviors,”
wrote Edward Pittman, BIRT coordinator and dean of the College for Campus Life
and Diversity, in an email to students…
Five days after the email was sent, Vassar President Catharine Hill sent a
follow-up email announcing that the bias incidents were hoaxes perpetrated by
two students…

Racism and hate are real. Hate crimes do happen — some violent, some just
threatening.
But unfortunately, there is no shortage of
wannabe heroes — who in most cases have never suffered discrimination — actively
undermining the cause by committing fake hate crimes, often with the idea of
drawing attention to an issue.

The Daily Caller had a piece this week on a recent and
especially pernicious hoax at Oberlin College, perpetrated by an
overzealous, outspokenly liberal Obama campaigner and his friend. The two young
men terrorized their campus with racist graffiti, flyers, and emails sent from a
fake address using the name of the university’s president, at one point placing
a flag with a swastika in a campus building. The incidents received national
news coverage.

Incredibly, once the hoaxers had been
discovered, suspended, and removed from campus, university administrators concealed their knowledge that it had
been a hoax, leaving other students (and Americans in general) to
fear that their campus was a far more dangerous and hostile place than it
actually was.

Fake hate crimes are sometimes politically
motivated, designed to get a reaction from people and convince them that hate is
a really big problem — this is usually done by liberals, but in at least one
prominent case (see below) it was done by a conservative. In other cases, the
perps have other motives, such as financial fraud or a need for evidence to
bolster a discrimination lawsuit.

Fake hate crimes seem especially common on
college campuses, where a reaction is almost guaranteed and where the perps are
naive enough about the ways of the world to think they can get away with
it.
Here’s a brief and partial recent history of
hate-crime hoaxes, culled from various online sources including trendsinhate.com (which contains accounts of
several real hate crimes as well) and fakehatecrimes.org:

I'm talking a different kind of high - the minus 15 the thermometer is
struggling to maintain as today's warmest temperature. The forecast says that
minus 15 will be tonight's low as well. I think there is something wrong there
but maybe we will get a break before it tumbles back down over the weekend.

I will be missing that joy as we head to the lower mainland early Friday
morning for Tess' nephew Roy's wedding on Saturday. It should be a fair bit
warmer in the south.

The problem is that I am not feeling at all well today. Sick to my stomach.
Bleck. Ate eggs for breakfast. Hope they weren't contaminated or it will be a
long drive Friday. Shouldn't be the flu because I had the shot. My two older
daughters didn't and both have been throwing up sick.

I had to take Tess' mom to the hospital lab for blood work this morning and I
have to take Tess car in to get the oil changed this afternoon. After that I am
going to come back here to my folks place and make sure they have a dinner
tonight and then I may collapse here for the night and make sure I get an early
sleep and shake whatever this is. I am really feeling chilled as well.

I live in a small community of about 15,000 with another, perhaps, 20,000 in
the surrounding 'burbs. In other words, a very small community smack dab in the
middle of British Columbia, or, 75 miles from the armpit of the universe.

Last week, visiting the local library, I had to water a horse and suddenly
noticed the signs that said the washrooms were under survellience.

Huh? Turns out there are no cameras in the washrooms but there are outside
and they are watching who goes in and out and how long they are there.

Why? It turns out they are being used "inappropriately."

In a library? In central British Columbia? You are shitting me.

Apparently not.

A recent tweet pointed me to this article written in a 'gay' online magazine.
It makes my head spin.

Reading is sexy. But it’s been getting a whole lot sexier at a Los Angeles
library.

The Los Angeles Downtown News reports that LAPD officials have been
investigating a “surge of illicit sexual activity” taking place in the restrooms
and other public areas at the Richard M. Riordan Central Library in downtown Los
Angeles.

So far nine arrests for lewd conduct have been made since authorities
launched their undercover investigation in January. They say all the arrests
have been for sexual encounters between men, most of which involve one man
jerking off while another man watches.
Sounds kinda hot. Although we’re not sure about the whole public restroom
thing. Too many germs.

LAPD Capt. Mike Oreb seems genuinely baffled by the bathroom hook-up
phenomenon. ”We’ve seen sexual activity in other places throughout the region,
parks and public bathrooms,” he told the paper. “[We’re] not sure why anyone’s
decided to focus on the bathrooms at the library.”

Dennis Romero, a writer for LA Weekly, says that the downtown library has
been a popular gay cruising spot for years. It even has a page on
crusingforsex.com, a NSFW website dedicated to locating and reviewing public
hook-up spots. The library’s profile describes it as the “best cruising location
in LA” with “restrooms on every floor.” It also notes that anyone can hook-up
there, and “you don’t need a library card unless you are checking something
out.”
Something other than another guy, that is.

Once we can get Tess' mother's rotund, lazy posterior out of bed we are
getting in the car and heading north. I will be so happy to leave this gay
paradise I have no words to express it so I will leave you with some wake up
music.

I keep the iPad on the nightstand when I sleep at night so I can read the
news and look at the weather when I wake up. There was another alert this
morning - another snow fall warning. Right! This storm is the gift that keeps on
giving.

The street Tess and I are on got cleared last night, no doubt do to my
rampage at city hall. Getting to my folks this morning was another matter. The
intersection between them and the highway has not been done and I barely made it
through there.

I am glad more snow is on the way. God forbid we should dig out from one
storm before getting another.

Depending on the part of town you live in, we have had between 14 and 16
inches of snow so far today and it is still snowing.

In the next 10 days there is another 30 inches in the forecast. Enough
already.

Keeping with their tradition of not plowing city streets until the snow lets
up the city has made this place a ghost town. People cannot get down town
because they can't get out of their driveway. I don't know how I am going to get
Tess home tonight. She may have to leave her car at work. Our street is barely
passable. I got stuck there 4 times in a half block when I went to shovel the
driveway again. If I get stuck, Tess will bury the car.

I stopped at city hall to complain and yell at someone. The only city plow
working was clearing their parking lot so their employees could leave. That
turned me into a loud, obnoxious, angry complainer. I will be at the next city
hall meeting with a delegation. This is the way they used to operate but had
gotten better the last few years. Not now.

Our extreme cold weather has broken here in central British Columbia. The
return of warmer air is always a mixed blessing here as it nearly always comes
with a snow fall.

Today we have extreme snow fall warnings with accumulations of between 8 and
16 inches forecast before tomorrow night. We've already had 3 inches.

I was up at 6:00 this morning fixing the garage door. The battery had died in
the opener and once a new one was installed it did not want to register
properly. Once I finally had it working I shoveled the the driveway for what
will be the first time of at least twice today and then drove up the hill out of
town to my parents. Once I finish my coffee I will do their driveway for the
first of at least two times today. The next door neighbor can wait until later
in the day. I am only going to do theirs once.

For the 91% of the US having below normal temperatures, please enjoy your
global warming.